(this is the Marquette Regional History Center building, using a vertical "slice" of this as filler under History Quiz)

Birch bark canoes are an Indigenous North American innovation; lighter, sturdier and easier to repair than dugout canoes. When did the Woodland people develop these canoes?

a. 1,000 years ago

b. 3,000 years ago

c. 6,000 years ago

d. 9,000 years ago

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Answer B: 3,000 years ago